High severity · published Nov 27, 2017
CVE-2017-1000159
Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF
7.8
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Command injection in evince via filename when printing to PDF. This affects versions earlier than 3.25.91.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EV
Evince · Gnome
before 3.25.91 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000159
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000159
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784947
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00006.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00013.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00014.html
seclists.org
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/18
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-15
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